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Just in time for the starter shot that American shoppers call Thanksgiving Day weekend comes a two-hour commercial, uh, full-length feature film “inspired by” the American Girl doll collection.
Set to air Tuesday night on the WB, Samantha: An American Girl Holiday, casts as its heroine a turn-of-the-century lass with enough pluck and moxie to take on sling-shot-wielding bullies and to cross class lines in search of everlasting friendship. The cobblestone streets and clopping carriage horses featured in promos have likely already put young marketing targets in a tizzy that doctors of the day might have diagnosed as “early onset hysteria.”
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